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- From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 19:24:25 GMT
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- Message-ID: <4ihot9$jgv@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- References: <DoE2nH.FIM@iquest.net>
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- In article <DoE2nH.FIM@iquest.net> dlmiller@iquest.net (Doug & Rose Miller)
- writes:
- > seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) wrote:
- > +In article <4i9u0l$vru@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
- > +Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
- > +>seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
- > <lots of meaningless drivel snipped>
- >
- > +Statistically speaking, it's hard to find *any* Eiffel programmers. It is
- no
- > +coincidence that the majority of programmers of *any* sort today are using C
- > +at least some of the time; it's the most widespread language
- >
- > WRONG. Guess again. It's Cobol.
-
- Seriously, I thought that it was BASIC.
- Anyone have more info on this.
- It think that it is significant to the hacking issue.
- Interpreter environments are nice for hacking.
-
-
- richard
-